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The FTC's New Click-to-Cancel Rule,  Amazon Prime, and the Future of Subscriptions
31 Oct 2024 • 16 min read

The FTC's New Click-to-Cancel Rule, Amazon Prime, and the Future of Subscriptions

Introduction Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a new rule that will significantly impact commerce across America: the Click-to-Cancel rule. In this post, I'll break down the rule, explain why it was implemented through a case study based on active FTC litigation involving Amazon Prime,

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How-to Evaluate a Product Roadmap, for Engineers
6 Sep 2023 • 9 min read

How-to Evaluate a Product Roadmap, for Engineers

Aka, how do I know if a product leader knows what they're doing? There are thousands of articles, courses, and guides on how to build a roadmap for product managers. Even with all these resources, roadmaps often become a point of contention between product managers and their stakeholders.

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Developing Strategy Under Uncertainty: Applying the Known-Unknown Matrix
17 Jul 2022 • 9 min read

Developing Strategy Under Uncertainty: Applying the Known-Unknown Matrix

How to use the Known-Unknown Matrix as a tool for starting a strategic process, organizing information, or dealing with decision block

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11 Nov 2021 • 2 min read

Life Lessons From Others

An evolving collection of impactful life lessons that others have learned. Self-Narratives can influence and mold who you are. "Now, as I’ve gotten older, I would say starting in my mid to late 20s, I could not help but notice the effect on people of the stories they

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Key Takeaways from Dr. Anthony Fauci's talk at the University of Chicago
26 Mar 2021 • 6 min read

Key Takeaways from Dr. Anthony Fauci's talk at the University of Chicago

In March 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci] spoke with University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy [http://harris.uchicago.edu/] Dean and health economist Katherine Baicker. Below are my takeaways from their conversation with an emphasis on leadership, decision-making, and healthcare policy. Do

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1 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

Easy Internationalization and in React Native

Internationalization can be a pain For the Brink mobile app [brinkapp.co/], we developed a system that we didn't hate and scaled well. This is how we organized the i18n logic. src ├── i18n │   ├── __tests__ │   │   └── i18n.test.js │   ├── i18n.js │   └── locales │   ├── en.js │   └── es.js This next part is

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React Native Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks
24 Aug 2018 • 3 min read

React Native Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

While building a React Native iOS and Android application, I've run into a number of trick, unintuitive issues. The following processes are how to solve them.

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Installing fonts on Amazon Linux AMIs for PhantomJS proper rendering
28 Jan 2018 • 3 min read

Installing fonts on Amazon Linux AMIs for PhantomJS proper rendering

How to install fonts on Amazon Linux AMIs to ensure they render properly when using PhantomJS.

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15 Oct 2017 • 1 min read

Use Polyfills to use JavaScript ES6 features with Phantom.js

Phantom.js is lagging behind modern browser support—learn how to use JavaScript ES6 features like Promises with Phantom.js.

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12 Sep 2017 • 3 min read

Easy JavaScript Internationalization in Rails using the I18n-js gem

Ruby on Rails provides a lovely Internationalization API for server-side localization. However, many projects forget to internationalize their front-end JavaScript framework and end up hard-coded text everywhere. Luckily, there's an easy way to localize your JS front-end using the i18n-js gem.

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